On the evening of October 10, the Chinese Weiqi Association announced the September 2021 Chinese chess player ranking score public version, and Ke Jie raised the record of ranking first consecutively to 35 months.
Ke Jie won five consecutive victories in the first division in September, and the ranking score rose by 14 points, extending the gap between the second place and 58 points from 39 points in the previous period. Judging from this score gap, Ke Jie's time record of ranking first will continue to reach new highs in the short term.
Gu Zihao, who ranked second in the previous period, suffered four consecutive defeats in the regular season at the end of the month, and his rank score plummeted by 18 points, and was surpassed by Yang Dingxin and retreated to third, and Yang Dingxin rose to second. Ding Hao and Mi Yuting, who ranked fourth and fifth respectively in the previous period, although their scores dropped by 4 points and 11 points respectively, their rankings remained unchanged. Fan Tingyu, who ranked eighth in the previous period, rose 17 points to jump to sixth, and Jiang Weijie retreated from sixth to seventh.
Li Weiqing, who ranked eleventh in the previous period, rose 11 points and directly jumped to eighth place due to winning many wins in the Samsung Cup preliminaries, the Ahan Tongshan Cup and the WeiJia. Lian Xiao and Xu Jiayang ranked ninth and tenth respectively.
Among the female chess players, Yu Zhiying, Wang Chenxing and Zhou Hongyu are still in the top three, and although Zhou Hongyu won the Jianqiao Cup, it was not reflected in the score statistics in this issue because the competition was in October.
In terms of upgrading, Li Weiqing was promoted to nine dan, Peng Liyao was promoted to eight duan, Kou Zhengyan and Huang Mingyu were promoted to five duan, and Wang Shuo was promoted to three dan. (Qujiang)
